299365 - Bad attribute-value normalization WRT white space

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121040

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Nowhere man]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)

According to the XML specification, a sequence of white spaces in attribute
value should be converted in onyl one white space, but it is not the case.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Loads the page
2. Hover the cursor over the THERE word (abbr tag with title) for the poput to
appear
3. See first two words badly separated by white spaces.

Actual Results:  
See first two words badly separated by white spaces.
-> "Multiple      whitespaces shoudl be rendered as one whitespace"

Expected Results:  
White spaces should be normalized to one.
-> "Multiple whitespaces shoudl be rendered as one whitespace"

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#AVNormalize

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121040 ***